WWII Gay G.I.s recounts tale of losing their Lovers Excerpt from the book Coming out under fire The history of gay Men and Women in World War Two: Combat soldiers often responded to each other’s per…
SANKAI JUKU - japanese butoh company With "Butoh" dancing, there is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance...
Presentamos una galería especial con imágenes de Margaret Bourke-White.
Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman to be salaried as an Official British War Artist during World War II, painting and sketching images of the home front, particularly the Women's Land Army where civilians were employed in agriculture to fill in for absent soldiers.
Soldiers separated from their loved ones during World War II gazed at photographs of their sweethearts, and wrote love letters in the hopes that one day, they would be reunited and start a family. One soldier, Gilbert Bradley, wrote his letters, too, but he could never keep a photo of…
The mightiest medieval castle you will ever see, a visit to Dover towers above all other days out.
Digital artist Marina Amaral specializes in photo colorization and recently updated the last images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner in Auschwitz. Breathing life into the black-and-white pictures, Amaral managed to visually emphasize the tragic past of Czeslawa Kwoka.
The Battle of Dunkirk took place in Dunkirk/Dunkerque, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe from 26 May – 4 June 1940. Following the events at Dunkirk, the German forces regrouped before commencing an operation called Fall Rot ("Case Red"), a renewed assault southward, starting on 5 June. Although two fresh British divisions had begun moving to France in an attempt to form a Second British Expeditionary Force (BEF), the decision was taken on 14 June to withdraw all the remaining British troops; an evacuation called Operation Ariel. By 25 June, almost 192,000 Allied personnel, 144,000 of them British, had been evacuated through various French ports. Although the French Army fought on, German troops entered Paris on 14 June. The French government was forced to negotiate an armistice at Compiègne on 22 June. The loss of materiel on the beaches was huge. The British Army left enough equipment behind to equip about eight to ten divisions. Discarded in France were, among huge supplies of ammunition, 880 field guns, 310 guns of large calibre, some 500 anti-aircraft guns, about 850 anti-tank guns, 11,000 machine guns, nearly 700 tanks, 20,000 motorcycles, and 45,000 motor cars and lorries. Army equipment available at home was only just sufficient to equip two divisions. The British Army needed months to re-supply properly and some planned introductions of new equipment were halted while industrial resources concentrated on making good the losses. Officers told troops falling back from Dunkirk to burn or otherwise disable their trucks (so as not to let them benefit the advancing German forces). The shortage of army vehicles after Dunkirk was so severe that the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was reduced to retrieving and refurbishing numbers of obsolete buses and coaches from British scrapyards to press them into use as troop transports. Some of these antique workhorses were still in use as late as the North African campaign of 1942. A marble memorial to the battle stands at Dunkirk. The French inscription is translated as: "To the glorious memory of the pilots, mariners, and soldiers of the French and Allied armies who sacrificed themselves in the Battle of Dunkirk, May–June 1940." (Photos: Hugo Jaeger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Haunting color photos made by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and 1940.
On May 5, the Netherlands celebrates Liberation day. This national holiday celebrates the liberation from Nazi occupation during WWII.
When you have an ugly concrete seashore hailing from post-WWII reconstruction efforts, how can you make it better? Simple! Make it into a sea-organ.
The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. But there is another story - of mass rapes by Soviet soldiers of German women.
Haunting color photos made by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and 1940.
TIME commissioned Sanna Dullaway to colorize iconic images of WWII refugees
1946. Cigány nőt gyógyít a medve. Fura módja volt a reuma kezelésének Romániában....
Pionnier du Leica
The most fascinating stories from our past are those that involve just one or two people. They’re those moments that we’re able to put ourselves inside so we can ask if we’d handle a situation in the same way.
The Japanese army forced some 200,000 women into sexual slavery during World War II. They were known as "comfort women." This special report tells the stories of the survivors in the Philippines.
A history lesson you'll actually enjoy!
There’s a camaraderie amongst circus performers. Not only do you have the same job, but you’re on the road together for months out of the year.
After the death of his grandmother in February of this year, Barney Britton found an unexpected treasure while cleaning out her attic: a wooden box filled
These stunning vintage photographs were taken by German combat photographer Franz Grasser. They show how Russians existed on the territories captured by German Nazi invaders. Would they be different if taken by a Russian photographer? During the war Grasser took many great photographs documenting the brutal combat on the Eastern Front. Prior to his service in the war Grasser was a professional photographer based in Munich. He died while in Soviet captivity near Novorossiysk, Russia, on November 13, 1944.
1961. Leonid Rogozov, a 6. szovjet antarktiszi expedíció egyetlen orvosa a “Novolazarevszkaja” �...
Hulda was only 8 when she was sadly murdered at Auschwitz Birkenau on October 12,1942
Looking through the long arc of time it’s easy to see the big moments, the major wins and losses, but it’s the small stories and characters who slip through the cracks of the history books that are the most interesting. Theirs are the stories that feel the most human, and provide context for grand historical moments that feel more like stories in a book than something that actually happened.These photos tell the history of people who rose to the occasion to make a change for the better, and who stood up for themselves when faced with impending doom.
Give yourself a dose of history to cure your ignorance and gain knowledge.
Idi Amin Dada • Emperor Hirohito • Chiang Kai-Shek • Wilhelm II • Yakubu Gowon • More ...
IT IS 75 years since the SS entered the Warsaw Ghetto to take the first group of 6,000 to the gas chambers. Within eight weeks 300,000 had been exterminated.
Tout au long de l'histoire, les choses ont changé, mais les gens restent les mêmes. Et par là, je veux dire qu
Vergiss das mit den "Eiern". Wir wissen doch alle, wie dieser Ausdruck *wirklich* heißen sollte.
Otto Skorzeny was an Austrian-born member of the SS who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He had learned unconventional war tactics
Es ist, als würde die Farbe sie wieder zum Leben erwecken.
Chaja was only 10 when she was sadly killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 17,1943.
Sinti and Roma children in the mud, Russia, August 1944. Courtesy of Das Budesarchiv.
